Political Quotes

“In my home State of Ohio, the largest nuclear scandal in American history has been perpetuated on our public. Ohio's only nuclear power is generated in northern Ohio, along Lake Erie by plants owned by Energy Harbor, previously known as FirstEnergy. For decades, FirstEnergy's customers have unknowingly paid for the outfall of this criminal company's nuclear malfeasance, careless management, and costly outages, and now criminality. When a hole in the nuclear reactor head at Davis-Besse proved to be the size of a pineapple, jaws dropped too late here in Washington at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Where were they? When a switch failure triggered by FirstEnergy shut off power for 3 days across the entire Midwest; Northeast; and Ontario, Canada, costing our economy $10 billion and nine lost lives, those in the commercial nuclear power world should have understood there was a big problem at FirstEnergy. Where were they? Neither the private sector nor the Federal Government did their jobs. Nuclear power production requires excellence and vigilance. No excuses. No passing the buck. FirstEnergy's business plan started to fail due to its huge repair costs resulting from its own mistakes. As the company sank into debt, rather than aspiring to excellence, it resorted to bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy, and racketeering. Thus, the largest commercial nuclear crimes in U.S. history are being litigated in Federal court in Cincinnati, Ohio.…”